H5N1 database containing details of to a greater extent than than twenty Million users of a Russian-based online dating website has been allegedly stolen past times a hacker too made publicly available for sale through an online forum.
H5N1 hacker using the online alias "Mastermind" on an online forum used past times cybercriminals claims the responsibleness of the hack into an unnamed online dating website, according to recent reports.
The leaked credentials are claimed to live on 100% valid inward a posting to a glue site, too Daniel Ingevaldson, master copy technology officeholder of Easy Solution, said that the listing included e-mail addresses from Hotmail, Yahoo too Gmail.
"The listing appears to live on international inward nature amongst hundreds of domains listed from all over the world," Ingevaldson said inward a blog post on Sunday.
"Hackers too fraudsters are probable to leverage stolen credentials to commit fraud non on the original hacked site, but to role them to exploit password re-use to automatically scan too compromise other sites including banking, go too e-mail providers."
The listing of leaked information contains over 7 i chiliad 1000 credentials from Hotmail, 2.5 i chiliad 1000 from Yahoo, too 2.2 i chiliad 1000 from Gmail. 50% of the credentials were for people based inward Russia, too 40% came from the European Union.
However, it is unclear how the credentials from the dating website were stolen too if the database contained the passwords inward encrypted cast or inward evidently text.
Though, Easy Solutions draws attending to the fact that pike phishing attacks could too been used to bag the information straight from the users of targeted website. "This incident is an early on indication that they are moving inward that direction, equally the commencement stride is acquiring e-mail databases amongst a relevant motive."
So far, it is too non at all clear if the leaked credentials tin live on used to access the e-mail accounts or the concern human relationship of the dating website. But, hackers tin yet role the stolen usernames too passwords to drive to access victims’ banking company accounts, wellness records or fifty-fifty to a greater extent than sensitive data.
According to unlike media outlets, the personal information believed to live on stolen from the pop dating website, named TOPFACE, amongst to a greater extent than than xc i chiliad 1000 registered users. The concern is headquartered inward Sankt Petersburg, Russia, too according to the website, to a greater extent than than 50% of its users are from exterior Russia.
We haven’t heard from Topface yet. Also, the society neither confirmed nor deny if it suffered a breach latterly that could accept resulted inward exposing a database of to a greater extent than than twenty i chiliad 1000 people. However, nosotros accept seen no indication of this information breach beyond the Pastebin post.
Easy Solutions is a US-based society that provides safety products for detecting too preventing cyber fraud across unlike estimator platforms.
